Studies in Medievalism IX (1997)

Medievalism and the Academy, I

The first of a two-volume examination of medievalism and academic scholarship, this collection is divided into four sections: Canonizing Chaucer, Antiquarian loomings, Medievalism, medieval studies, and Medieval studies at the millennium.

Medievalism, the "continuing process of creating the middle ages", engenders formal medieval studies from a wide variety of popular interests in the middle ages. This volume accordingly explores the common ground between artistic and popular constructions of the middle ages and the study of the middle ages within the academy. Essays treat the genesis of medieval studies in early modern antiquarianism; the erection of academic medievalism through persistent, indeed perverse, appeals to heroic medieval manliness and attenuated female spirituality; the current jeopardy of the book (a medieval invention) in the face of technological assault; the politics of the nineteenth-century academy (F.W. Furnival and others); the editorial practice of Sidney Lanier; and the cultural canonization of Chaucer.

Table of Contents

Editorial - Kathleen VerduinSpeaking to Chaucer: The Poet and the Nineteenth-Century Academy - David O. MatthewsPopular Chaucer and the Academy - Steve Ellis"My love for Chaucer": F. J. Furnivall and the Homosociality in the Chaucer Society - Antonia WardAn Incipient Medievalist in the Seventeenth Century: William Somner of Canterbury - Graham ParryRevaluing the Work of Edward Lye, an Eighteenth-Century Septentrional Scholar - Margaret Clunies RossPleasure, Progress, and the Profession: Elizabeth Elstob and Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Studies - Anna SmolSceptical Medievalism: The Problem of Arthurian Historicity in the Scottish Enlightenment - David W. AllanMedievalism and Social Reform at the Academy of San Fernando in Spain (1759-1808) - Matilde MateoThe Hero as Editor: Sidney Lanier's Medievalism and the Science of Manhood - Marya DeVotoMemories of the Comtesse de Die: Maurras, Mistral, and Medievalists - Stephen SteeleNaming and Un-naming Violence against Women: German Historiography and the Cult of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia - Ulrike WiethausThe Autumns of Johan Huizinga - James C. KennedyErnst Robert Curtius: The Achievement of a Humanist - William CalinShifting Paradigms and the Development of Hypermedia Editions - Jesse D. HurlbutMerciless and Merciful Ladies: Some Considerations in Moving from Print to Electronic Editions of Medieval Texts - Joan Grenier-WintherTechnology and Philology Today - William Paden Jr